As Ying Chen uttered these words, the faint light seemed to understand his intent, suddenly flaring up and transitioning from its hidden state to its full power.
Its entire form manifested.
It was an arrow!
The Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow!
The Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow, newly refined, was revealing its full strength for the first time, engaging in its first real combat!
The fierce radiance emanating from the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow was as if it had directly created a miniature sun in the void.
Where its light shone, nothing could remain hidden.
The Great Mongrel and the Little Mongrel were most adept at invisibility, concealing themselves within sunlight, transforming into shadows beneath it.
But now, their technique had failed.
The two were firmly locked onto by the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow, like a sharp sword hanging over their heads, an arrow pointed at their brows!
They felt a chill down their spines, their hair standing on end, their faces displaying unprecedented panic.
Like two startled mountain hares.
"It's over, it's over, our lives are forfeit today!" the Great Mongrel lamented.
"No! I don't want to die! We can't hold back now, quickly unleash the ultimate move from Master's secret manual!"
The Little Mongrel, clearly possessing a stronger will to survive than the Great Mongrel, spoke.
"But... we haven't fully mastered it yet! Even if we unleash it, it will end up killing a thousand enemies while harming ourselves eight hundred; it's not worth it!"
"You're still thinking about whether it's worth it when we're about to die! Then you go ahead and die!" the Little Mongrel was furious.
Then, disregarding the Great Mongrel, he abruptly raised his hands towards the sky, assuming a strange and sinister posture.
Simultaneously, he chanted, "Ten Directions Yin Lie, Underworld Borrowing Law!"
"With my blood, nourish your body!"
"Law come!"
Seeing the Little Mongrel forcefully unleash the ultimate move, the Great Mongrel could only sigh and assume the same posture.
He too chanted.
In an instant, the heavens and earth changed color, dark clouds enveloped the sky.
The entire world seemed to plunge into darkness, becoming eerie and terrifying.
From the depths, the cries of ten thousand ghosts could be heard, and at the end of the darkness, a door seemed to open.
A terrifying and boundless pressure emanated from within the door.
It was as if the Great Mongrel and the Little Mongrel had truly communicated with the underworld, opened the gates of hell, and invited a demon god from within!
"Heh heh."
Ying Chen chuckled at the sight.
A whistle sounded, and the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow vanished into the void.
When the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow reappeared, it had already reached the end of the darkness, the gates of hell.
Boom!
The Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow transformed into a streak of light piercing through the cosmos, crashing into the gates of hell.
A mournful cry was heard, and then the gates of hell slowly closed.
The darkness that had enveloped the sky began to recede, rays of light piercing through and illuminating the ground.
With a single strike, the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow had shattered the so-called ultimate move of the Great Mongrel and the Little Mongrel!
"How is this possible?"
The Great Mongrel and the Little Mongrel were stunned, saying incredulously.
They knew that according to their Master's secret manual, this move was to forcefully open the Geopathic Gate, gather the Yin Qi accumulated over a thousand years beneath the earth, and form an unprecedentedly powerful and evil Yin Spirit Demon God.
This Yin Spirit Demon God would not only slaughter enemies but even pose a threat to the summoner.
This was why the Great Mongrel had said "killing a thousand enemies while harming ourselves eight hundred."
Logically, such a heaven-defying entity should have intimidated everyone and suppressed all things upon its appearance.
But unexpectedly, the so-called unprecedentedly powerful demon god didn't even show its face before being instantly killed by the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow!
At this moment, the Great Mongrel and the Little Mongrel could only echo a line from a storyteller: "Trusting books is worse than having no books!"
It was a pity that while the protagonists in those stories understood the "invincible sword technique of 'no move defeating any move'" with that realization, they would never have the chance.
Because after instantly killing the demon god, the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow vanished from sight once more.
Needless to say, it was definitely coming for them!
"Big brother, you truly are a harbinger of doom! I don't want to be brothers with you in the next life," the Little Mongrel said to the Great Mongrel, sighing.
The Great Mongrel, unwilling to be outdone, retorted, "You're the one who's a harbinger of doom! If it weren't for you, I would have already snatched the treasure and returned to the mountains by myself!"
"Blaming others, shameless!"
"The crow calls the pig black; you're even more shameless!"
Even as they faced death, the two continued to argue.
However, they were not entirely incompatible; they had at least reached one consensus.
That was – they did not want to be brothers again in the next life.
Ching!
With a piercing sound, the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow finally reappeared.
However, after reappearing, the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow was now embedded in the Great Mongrel's chest.
An arrow pierced his heart.
The blood spurted out several meters, warm as wine.
Thump!
The Great Mongrel's eyes widened, and he fell to the ground.
He died with his eyes open.
The Little Mongrel, looking at the dead Great Mongrel, the one he had been verbally abusing moments ago, suddenly had his eyes tear up.
"Big brother! How could you really be dead? I didn't really want you to die!"
"Big brother, everything I said just now was a lie. I still want to be brothers with you in the next life..."
"Wuwuwu, don't leave me behind in the next life! I'll be scared alone."
As if hearing the Little Mongrel's words, the Great Mongrel, already dead, twitched his finger, making a hook gesture.
He was agreeing to the Little Mongrel's request, preparing to pinky swear with him!
Seeing this gesture, the Little Mongrel's tears gushed out, and he lunged onto the Great Mongrel's body, tightly holding his finger.
In the next second, the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow flashed again.
The same position, the same technique, an arrow pierced the Little Mongrel's back.
The Little Mongrel was startled for a moment, then a smile spread across his face.
It seemed that this was what he had wished for, allowing him to stay with the Great Mongrel and continue to be brothers in the next life.
"Alas!"
He Chongxu looked at the corpses of the two brothers. He should have been happy, but for some reason, he couldn't feel happy at all.
Before this, He Chongxu had desperately wished for the two brothers to die quickly.
But now, He Chongxu suddenly felt that these two brothers died somewhat pitifully.
Ying Chen seemed to see through He Chongxu's thoughts and said with a faint glance, "If you always have this mindset, you will never touch the true Dao."
"Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs. This saying, worn out by countless people throughout the ages, how many truly understand it?"
After speaking, Ying Chen said no more and beckoned with his hand.
The Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow flew back into Ying Chen's hand.
After being consecrated by the heart blood of the Great Mongrel and the Little Mongrel, the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow appeared even more spirited, as if the entire arrow was alive.
Moreover, a trace of extreme Yin energy lingered on the arrowhead.
This was a remnant from when it instantly killed the demon god.
Once the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow absorbed this trace of extreme Yin energy, it would become even sharper, much like how a blacksmith tempers a sword in a cold pool.
Ying Chen put away the Chengying Dragon Breath Arrow.
He walked forward.
He Chongxu was left standing there dumbfounded, still pondering Ying Chen's words.
"Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs... Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs..."
He Chongxu had heard this saying since he was a child studying, and it had become cliché as he grew up.
As a result, he had lost all interest in it.
But for some unknown reason, after Ying Chen's subtle hint, He Chongxu faintly sensed a meaning he had never perceived before.
It was profound and mysterious, hazy, like the "gate of all wonders" described in Daoism, visible but unattainable.